ok now i've gone and done it.
look look new (temporary) template! and it's not even mine this time. and it's admittedly nicer. or at least easier on the eye. but only cos i (temporarily) suck at html. back to the drawing board then.
now this is an embarrassingly new predicament. after toying around with the template of this blog for the past evening or so (minus 2 hours for the tarantino-CSI finale [awesome!] and an hour of WWE Raw [shite!]), i've finally gotten my comments link back up. well, technically it's not even "back" up, cos it's not the same comments as before; used to be using some UK thingy called enetation or sth liddat, but i figured that since thats the one that's giving me all the trouble in the first place, i'd just go use the blogger one instead. except now my entire sidebar seems to have gone all funny-
ARGH!!! freak. i hate it when bands put stupid secret tracks at the end of their albums. u know, the kind that leaves like, 10 minutes of absolute silence, until you forget that the cd is even playing if you're occupied doing sth else at the time (such as playing with html), before kicking into the final track stuffed into the last minute or so of the 'last' track. not cool. especially at 2.30 in the morning. scared the shit outta me.
-ok so where was i. ah, sidebar. yes, it's gone all mental on me, and it's decide to become a bottombar instead (ahaha so funny, i know). and i have no idea why, which is pissing the heck outta me, so much so that i'm having my rovers comm IT fella have a look at it (thanks david!)... hopefully by the time you read this the problem would've already been solved, so no one would actually know about my absolute html buffoonery.
except you'd have just read about it, so... damn.
anyway, comments are up
so come and play!
yes yes oh yay.
update: my sidebar remains a bottombar. feel free to check out my source code and tell me what the problem is. you might just win a prize.
work for the sake of it.
i love rovers. in all honesty, it's inspired me to go out and work harder than anything else in a really long time. not to mention the fact that we get the chance to go out there and do really silly shit like turn this...
into this sparkling thing of beauty...
for absolutely no good reason at all. i think we were probably the only group around who actually worked for more than 10 minutes on the booth design (see: adjacent booths). typically singaporean then, that we'd get berated for it, for the authorities said that our original design (with the banner higher than how it appears in the photo by oh, 20cm) had to be changed because it wouldn't be fair to other societies. because, as we all know, at a fair where we're supposed to promote our club among a whole crowded sweaty orgy of clubs (and it really was sweaty, cos they didn't bother switching on the aircon for half the hall, so the side who didnt get the aircon decided to open their windows, which kinda made the aircon for the whole hall less than effective anyway), it's actually not good to try and stand out *too* much.
so anyway. we lowered the banner by 20cm, the authorities saw it again, and it was good. (we actually had another idea where we'd actually put the banner on a flag pole pulley kinda mechanism, so when the auths came round we'd just lower it, and mari-kita it again after they'd left, just for a laugh.)
to make the whole situation all the funnier, our original design also included a banner facing the other direction, standing high above the barrier behind our booth. problem was that behind us lay the s p o n s o r s... and God forbid that any NUS club be allowed to overshadow any of the sponsors!! i mean, what if people were actually looking at the singtel phone plans, then looked up and went 'hey! there's a really high rovers banner! screw this phone plan, think i'll go there instead.'
for the record, we may actually have gotten more members than singtel sold plans that day, so the auths may have been right all along. sorry singtel.
new cds! new cds! oh happy day
went cd mad today at hmv... wanted to pick up the kraftwerk live double cd and maybe missy elliot, but ended up getting kraftwerk, royksopp, the new stars cd (49 freakin bucks!! stupid import pricing. last time this happened was with franz ferdinand, which i imported for the same price from HMV, feeling all smug and stuff thinking that no one in singapore, and subsequently no local publisher, would give a shit about the band. 3 weeks later i saw it at music junction going for $seventeen.90. i thought wrong, evidently), the debut cd by the magic numbers ("the record that 2005 is destined to be remembered for" -Mojo... with a cover sticker like that, how could you go wrong? *fingers -no pun intended- crossed*), and 2 older cds from jap band l'arc-en-ciel which i'd never been bothered to pick up before cos they were always goin for 50bucks each... but now they were goin for a much more sensible $18 (and japanese print too, whoo-hoo! not crappy taiwan reprint), cos of HMV's summer sale, so all is right with the world then.
so that's 6 (seven, if you wanna be fussy.) new albums for me to go and have a nice sitdown with then... now if more than half of them aren't shite, it'd be an afternoon well spent then. wish me luck.
shit. my comments link is gone. time for some housekeeping i guess.
think it's really sad that the turnout of foreign bands on local soil is currently so sparse that the appearance of good charlotte on the local concert schedule is cause for celebration. now don't get me wrong, it's not that GC are a crap band (well, not simple plan bad at least), just that well, they're wouldnt usually be the first group i'd jump at to watch in concert. ok fine, i'm just jealous of the fact that alvin just got to watch freakin OASIS at freakin MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. not to mention that the GC concert clashes with my rovers camp, so i won't get to watch them either way.
anyway.
OASIS.
the only band of which i own all their concert dvds, because they're just so awesome live (when they're not piss drunk). also, the band who would've, could've, should've played in singapore a couple of years back, until the brothers gallagher got cold feet over 'safety issues'. in other words, they might've gotten blown up at kallang.
pussies.
on the other hand, they've just released their first really credible LP in ages. funny that it's great because it sounds so different from what we've come to expect from oasis (less stadium filling anthems, more gritty, raw sounding stuff that emulates the stones, or stuff that they simply havent done before, swerving more towards the spiralling, innovative sounds of the coral at their best, and badly drawn boy). they've never sounded better, or any more relevant, than they do on 'don't belive the truth'.
but i digress.
so, GC aside, there's another sub A-list band on the way, and that would be the Bravery, playin at, of all places, the singapore indoor stadium WATERFRONT GREEN. they don't get the indoor stadium, or fort canning green, or even one of those suntec convention halls with the crappy acoustics (not that avril or simple plan seemed to mind), but they get the lousy stage on the patch of land outside the stadium?? nothing's ever been staged there except for, oh, an outdoor rendition of R & J a couple of months ago. one cant help but lament the loss of the habour pavillion as a concert venue (oh the memories)... singapore needs a mid-level location for rock concerts, and waterfront green sure isn't it. fort canning would be nice; WOMAD fans could attest to that. anyway we're talkin about a band who recently got a 5-star review from Q based on their live performances alone, and they deserve much more than a small spot outside the indoor stadium.
(second opinion: then again, they haven't exactly extablished themselves much in singapore, what with having released but 1 single... in fact i wouldn't be surprised if more singaporeans have heard of electrico, who're supporting them, than of the bravery. not sure if that indicates that our local music industry is doing something right, or just that whoever's doing local PR for the bravery well, sucks.)
speaking of fort canning green, guess who else is coming to perform this coming month? SLIPKNOT!?! who would've guessed... the country who once banned metallica and madonna is now welcoming scarymask-wearing heavy metal maniacs slipknot with open arms? now if only they didn't charge such exorbitant prices for their concert, otherwise i'd consider going, just to see what a real metal concert would be like (and sum41 doesnt count, tho their HRC gig came close). word of advice to those considerin going, please don't pick up the $100 tix. fort canning security has never ever seemed to figure out the gate jumping problem, and i don't forsee them fixing it anytime soon... i'd love to be proven wrong though (or not.)
im the meantime, support local music events! baybeats is just round the corner, and if last year's show was any indication, this year should be just as kickass. now if only last days of april would come over again... no indie festival would be complete without an indie emo band to evoke those lighter waving moments.
k, off to get my comments back. in the meantime, feel free to fill my tag with nonsense, as long as your not a porn spamming bot. thanks for caring.
